Introduction: Dragon Boat Festival is one of the legal holidays in our country, not to the Dragon Boat Festival we will take a vacation, usually the holiday is three days of time, but the legal vacation time is one day. In the holiday vacation time, we celebrate the festival together, eat rice dumplings, rowing dragon boat, drive away the five poisons. Leisure time, the following we listen to the Dragon Boat Festival legend story, these Dragon Boat Festival stories and legends let you know more rich Dragon Boat Festival.

Dragon Boat Festival Legendary Stories Dragon Boat Festival Stories and Legends

Dragon Boat Festival Legendary Stories One

The first story of the Dragon Boat Festival is in honor of Qu Yuan, a great poet in history. This saying is widely spread throughout the country and is most recognized by the common people. Qu Yuan was a native of Chu during the Warring States period, and his official position was left disciple, sanlu dafu, etc. He was a man of honor and integrity. Qu Yuan is a man of integrity, worry about the country and the people, is committed to the country's change of law, but has repeatedly suffered from the villain's slanderous attacks and injuries, coupled with the King Huai of Chu's mediocrity, do not distinguish between the loyal and the treacherous, full of loyalty and love for the people's fervor of the qu yuan was estranged, banished, and ultimately, in the sadness and despair of the first five days of May in the Miluojiang River and died. In his honor, people have the Dragon Boat Festival, which is the only way to eat zongzi, dragon boat racing and other customs.

Dragon Boat Festival Legends and Stories

The second story of the Dragon Boat Festival is in honor of Wu Zixu. Wu Zixu, a native of Chu, had his father and brother unjustly killed by the ruthless King Ping of Chu. Later, Wu Zixu fled to the state of Wu, helped the state of Wu to enrich and strengthen its army, and assisted Wu to conquer Chu, attacking the capital of Chu, Ying City, in five battles. When King Ping of Chu died, Wu Zixu dug up his tomb and whipped his body 300 times to avenge the murder of his father and brother. After the death of King Helu of Wu, his son Fu-chai succeeded to the throne, Wu became more powerful, attacked the state of Yue and won a victory, King Goujian of Yue asked for peace, Fu-chai agreed. At this time, King Fu-chai of Wu was already overwhelmed by the victory, and began to be proud and arrogant, and could not listen to the advice he received. Wu Zixu advised him to destroy the Yue kingdom completely to prevent future troubles, but Fu Chai did not listen to him. Instead, he believed the slanderous rumors that framed Wu Zixu, and forced Wu Zixu to kill himself. Before his death, Wu Zixu told his neighbors, "When I die, gouge out my eyes and hang them on the east gate of the capital of Wu to see the army of Yue enter the city and destroy Wu." Then he drew his sword and killed himself. When Fu Chai learned of this, he was furious and had Wu Zixu's body packed in leather and thrown into the river on the 5th of May, so it is said that the Dragon Boat Festival is also a day to commemorate Wu Zixu.

Duanwu Festival Legend Story Three

The third story of the Dragon Boat Festival is in honor of Cao E, a filial daughter of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Cao E is the Eastern Han Dynasty Shangyu people, his father drowned in the river, salvage days can not find the body, the filial daughter of Cao E was only fourteen years old, she was grief-stricken, day and night along the river crying. After seventeen days, she threw herself into the river on the fifth day of the fifth month, and surfaced five days later with her father's body in her arms. Cao E's filial act was so touching that it was widely spread among the people. Literati and writers at that time made eulogy speeches to praise Cao E's filial act of throwing herself into the river in search of her father. The tomb of Cao E, a filial daughter, is located in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province, today. In front of the tomb, there is a Cao E stele, which is said to have been written by Wang Yi of the Jin Dynasty. In order to commemorate Cao E's filial piety, the descendants built the Cao E Temple in the place where Cao E threw herself into the river, the village where she lived was renamed Cao E Town, and the river where Cao E died for her father was renamed Cao E River, and people came to pay tribute to Cao E on the day of her throwing herself into the river in search of her father on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar.

Dragon Boat Festival

In fact, the origins of many of China's traditional festivals are mostly related to the seasons, agricultural time and farming needs. Once recognized as a national holiday, and must be attached to a number of customs as the basic components, and with the passage of time and different regions will join many of the local customs, although the same has been to eat rice dumplings and dragon boat races, but it is these new customs to make the traditional festivals have gained a new vitality.

1, rice dumplings

Dragon Boat Festival to eat rice dumplings is estimated to be an important reason why people now like the Dragon Boat Festival. Zongzi, also known as "corn", "tube dumplings", different regions with different names, styles are also strange, but the time to eat zongzi for thousands of years has been the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar every year. Folk legend is to eat zongzi in honor of Qu Yuan, but in fact, as early as the Spring and Autumn period before the zongzi records, with Zizania leaves (wild rice leaves) wrapped in millet into a horn-shaped, called "corner of the millet"; with a bamboo tube loaded with rice sealed and baked, called "tube zongzi". The end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, to grass ash water soaked in millet, because the water contains alkali, with Mushroom leaves wrapped in millet into a quadrangular shape, cooked, became the Guangdong alkaline water rice dumplings.

2, dragon boat racing

Dragon boat is commonly known as the boat dressed up in the likeness of a dragon, and then more than one collective paddle race water sports. As for the origin of the dragon boat in fact is probably not from the commemoration of Qu Yuan, because as early as in the Warring States period. In the sound of drums, rowing a canoe carved into the shape of a dragon, to do the game of racing, to entertain the gods and people, is a half-religious, half-entertainment program in the rituals, and slowly over time to the dragon boat race put a different meaning. Nowadays, dragon boat racing is gradually accepted by the public, and in 1980, dragon boat racing was included in China's national sports events, and in 2010, it became one of the sports events of the Guangzhou Asian Games.

3, xionghuang wine

The Dragon Boat Festival and after the festival, the weather is hot, flies and insects, poisonous gas rise, the disease sprouted. Ancient people believe that people are eating grains and cereals to produce a hundred diseases, and the disease enters by the mouth, most of the evil gas, inhaled through the mouth and nose. Ancient people in the long-term struggle with a variety of diseases and demons in the process, found that drinking xionghuang wine can kill a hundred poisons, in the traditional festival of Dragon Boat Festival on this day people will pour xionghuang into the wine to drink, and put the xionghuang wine coated in the children's ears, nose, forehead, hands, feet, etc., in particular, will be painted on the forehead of the king, I hope that so that the children are not subject to the harm of snakes and insects.